The Core: Action Beans and JSPs - Stripes...and Java Web Development is Fun Again - page 49

Figure 3.10: The contact form

model objects, that's no problem either—Stripes happily uses deeply
nested properties, such as "contact.address.street.name" . Let's put all this
to work and build a form for contacts.

Creating a Blank Form
The <s:form> tag creates a form associated with the action bean indi-
cated in its beanclass= attribute. Within the tag, we add input fields
with tags such as <s:text>, <s:radio>, and every other type of input.
These tags all have a name= attribute in which we put the name of the
action bean property that receives the user's input. To complete the
form, we add one or more submit buttons with the <s:submit> tag and
the name= of the event handler associated with the button.

Have a look at the following code. This creates the form shown in Fig-
ure 3.10 :

Download email_05/web/WEB-INF/jsp/contact_form.jsp

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<s:form beanclass="stripesbook.action.ContactFormActionBean">
<table class="form">
<tr>
<td> Email: </td>

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<td><s:text name="contact.email"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> First name: </td>
<td><s:text name="contact.firstName"/></td>
</tr>